Ghosts in the Code

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Further reading

The record behind the record. Titles are listed without links until each link is verified by the author — a bibliography with rotten links is its own kind of tampering. Once links land, an automated weekly audit checks every one and files an issue when any of them rot.

The relay — originsLINKS PENDING VERIFICATION
  • The Night Side of Nature Catherine Crowe · 1848
  • Report on Spiritualism of the Committee of the London Dialectical Society London Dialectical Society · 1871
  • Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research (founding volumes) SPR · 1882–
  • The Confessions of Margaret Fox Kane (recantation coverage) New York World · 1888
  • Raymond, or Life and Death Sir Oliver Lodge · 1916
  • Edison's 'apparatus' remarks Scientific American / diary sources · 1920s
  • Houdini–Bess secret code accounts press archives · 1926–1936
The relay — instrumental eraLINKS PENDING VERIFICATION
  • Voices from Space (Rösterna från rymden) Friedrich Jürgenson · 1964
  • Breakthrough: An Amazing Experiment in Electronic Communication with the Dead Konstantin Raudive · 1971
  • Voices of Eternity Sarah Estep · 1988
  • Spiricom technical report and aftermath Metascience Foundation / critical reviews · 1982
The AI ghost factoryLINKS PENDING VERIFICATION
  • Meeting You — VR reconstruction of Nayeon (documentary) MBC (Korea) · 2020
  • Talk to Me When I'm Gone — the Dadbot James Vlahos · 2017–
  • Project December and the Jessica Simulation (reporting) San Francisco Chronicle · 2021
  • StoryFile — Marina Smith funeral coverage press · 2022
  • US Patent 10,853,717 — conversational chatbot of a specific person Microsoft · 2020
  • Griefbot ethics literature (Hollanek & Nowaczyk-Basińska and others) academic · 2023–
MethodLINKS PENDING VERIFICATION
  • NDE research corpus: distressing NDE literature (Greyson, Bush) academic · var.
  • Pre-registration and blind-protocol methodology open science literature · var.